She told me she had soft bones. Surprise surprise. Also became a vegetarian, don’t know why. How would she get enough calcium?

She said she “felt bloated” after eating wheat so now eats “gluten free.” At a party for a family birthday she ordered a gluten/cheese/meat free pizza. Whaaaat? It looked like a puddle of sick, flat. She has put on a ton of weight—gluten free is mostly ground starch!

She is big on fermented foods, kefir and god knows what else plus sauerkraut. Good for your gut, good bacteria. Except that the bacteria die in the sack of hydrochloric acid that is your gut. Best way to boost gut flora: fibre! As in wholemeal bread, oats etc, the stuff she doesn’t eat.

She told me she had soft bones. Surprise surprise. Also became a vegetarian, don’t know why. How would she get enough calcium?

She said she “felt bloated” after eating wheat so now eats “gluten free.” At a party for a family birthday she ordered a gluten/cheese/meat free pizza. Whaaaat? It looked like a puddle of sick, flat. She has put on a ton of weight—gluten free is mostly ground starch!

She is big on fermented foods, kefir and god knows what else plus sauerkraut. Good for your gut, good bacteria. Except that the bacteria die in the sack of hydrochloric acid that is your gut. Best way to boost gut flora: fibre! As in wholemeal bread, oats etc, the stuff she doesn’t eat.

Madness! Fuck fad diets!

Yeah, fad diets are silly but gluten intolerance can be quite serious.

I have a good friend who's a coeliac, and just a trace of gluten in her food makes her violently ill.

I've had to take her to hospital on a few occasions because small traces of wheat were in her food.

She told me she had soft bones. Surprise surprise. Also became a vegetarian, don’t know why. How would she get enough calcium?

She said she “felt bloated” after eating wheat so now eats “gluten free.” At a party for a family birthday she ordered a gluten/cheese/meat free pizza. Whaaaat? It looked like a puddle of sick, flat. She has put on a ton of weight—gluten free is mostly ground starch!

She is big on fermented foods, kefir and god knows what else plus sauerkraut. Good for your gut, good bacteria. Except that the bacteria die in the sack of hydrochloric acid that is your gut. Best way to boost gut flora: fibre! As in wholemeal bread, oats etc, the stuff she doesn’t eat.

She told me she had soft bones. Surprise surprise. Also became a vegetarian, don’t know why. How would she get enough calcium?

She said she “felt bloated” after eating wheat so now eats “gluten free.” At a party for a family birthday she ordered a gluten/cheese/meat free pizza. Whaaaat? It looked like a puddle of sick, flat. She has put on a ton of weight—gluten free is mostly ground starch!

She is big on fermented foods, kefir and god knows what else plus sauerkraut. Good for your gut, good bacteria. Except that the bacteria die in the sack of hydrochloric acid that is your gut. Best way to boost gut flora: fibre! As in wholemeal bread, oats etc, the stuff she doesn’t eat.

Madness! Fuck fad diets!

Apart from the exceedingly small number of people who are genuinely celiac, most people find they feel better giving up wheat because they've had an overall diet improvement, and they've probably been eating rubbish like mass produced factory bread. Instead of giving up bread, try a 24hr sourdough which is much easier on digestion.

And you're right about gut flora, you need to feed them. Pulses, veges of all types and a really good one is potatoes cooked and reheated the next day lowers their starch resistance.

HBS Guy wrote:Just imagine the world if we changed sex as we got older, like some fish & amphibians do.

awesome, I could finally play with a pair of tits whenever i liked and no one would whinge

Obesity can do the same for you.

I'm cursed. I can eat as much as I like and not put on weight. It's a burden I've had to live with for most of my life.

Me too. The most I've ever weighed was 185 as I came out of Army basic training because I put on muscle. Over the course of my adult life after basic training I've never worked as hard at building muscle, and I gradually lost weight. Right now I weigh close to what I weighed as a high school senior. I keep reminding my friends I'm not "scrawny", I'm "slender".

I actually went to the doctor when I was about 22 because I had tried everything to gain weight but failed. I'd just spent 6 months on those protein shakes body builders use and not a single pound. The doctor looked at me and said 'you want to put on weight? Get married.' He was psychic.

I stayed that weight (about 70kg) for another 16 years and then I got married. After I got married I put on about 10 kg in 10 years. Although some of that may be due to my last job having being so laid back.

I've been in this new job for about 2 months now and lost about 5 kg of that already so I'm back to about 75kg

Oh so totally jealous!!You two including my hubby, are all the same, must have hollow legs, or worms or something!!

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themsleves and wiser people so full of doubts" ~ Bertrand Russell